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((Dude. I don't either one of our characters knows what the other is talking about. xd ))

"Yeah." Ryan said as he quickly ate his sushi. He reached over to grab his Lost Driver and Memory.

"Yeah." Ryan said as he put his driver and memory away before getting up and slowly heading towards the door.

"Probably right. But I've still got stuff to do. I promise I'll be careful." Ryan said, looking back over at Kio before walking out the door.

Kio sighed and sat back down. He leaned back and began to think. He needed to do something. Maybe he should go for a ride.



Rio blushed a bit and smiled. "Kira...thank you. It realy makes me feel good to hear you say that. And uh...if its for you i will continue to fight."

*A motorcycle roared out before flying through the air. Firing several times over, Era shot his gun in it's rifle mode towards the dragonfly. Making sure to miss the first shot, he destroyed the closest mirror-like object before it could quickly flee and made sure it would have a hard time avoiding the shots that followed the first. Stopping on his cycle, Era casually sat on it as it continued to run it's engine.* I was in the neighborhood and heard that the value of houses in this area was on the decline. Thought you could use a hand in renovations.

*Initializing the process to cross kamen ride another ride, Era once again crossed Fang with another memory based rider.* Lets see how your mentor's mentor can help your abilities. *Crossing Fang with Kamen Rider Skull, Era stayed on his motorcycle and kept it in idle.*

*Sitting on his bike and allowing it to remain in idle, Era watched the crossed Fang and Skull rider fight the two monsters at once. He knew this would be a good chance for Ryan to get more in sync with his memory again, something he probably could use more chances to do. After seeing him finish both monsters effortlessly, he drove over and snatched up a handful of the medals that came from the yummy.*

Nice use of the abilities. I think you'd make both your mentors proud. *Motioning the hand that had a large amount of the cell medals, Era continued.* I'm going to take these to get a few candroid and whatnot. I need more of a sense for what is going on around the city. Make sure Kio gets the rest of these.

*Driving off, Era headed to purchase a few candroids from a vendor location he knew of and take them back home. He was lucky in having heard the commotion of this conflict ahead of time. Wanting to hurry and get them, he knew Dalton was soon going to be waiting at another location to tell him what he knew about his new driver.*

*Some time after Era had left the fight scene, Hiraku and Dalton sat outside at a bench, eating lunch. Managing to convince the military to not assign guards, Dalton proved his use of the driver in a test earlier in the morning and was allowed to go about his business as usual. He was, however, kept on a system where he was informed of attacks that the military detected that didn't seem under control. Lunch being a foreign concept to Hiraku who usually didn't eat too much in the day, he paced himself slowly. Dalton had already finished his food and was ecstatically going over details of what he felt was important.*

They called it the Ardennial Driver because...well... I don't know, but I figured Ardence was the name so I went with it.
It sounds like an odd name. The military had it too?
For a hundred years or something like that.
Hmmm.... *Hiraku slightly questioned this in his mind, feeling more to the story than Dalton knew of.*
Well, anyways, the gears I make I call Geardens. There seems to be a lot of types, so I figured I would call them all something.

*Forming several in his hand without transforming, Dalton put his palm out to Hiraku who still slowly ate his food.*
The large one I call Frame Gearden, I don't know how to make any others right now. The medium one I call Spret Geardens and the smaller ones I call Pinn Geardens. There seems to be a lot of them I can make, but I still don't know how to fully control all that...
*Dalton closed up his hand, the Geardens disappearing as he did. Sliding out the rock looking slab, Dalton continued.*
This is the... uhhh...what did my mom call it again? I think it was the Permory Oscillator or something. We're not sure what it fully does, but it seems to drive the driver and uses the Geardens.
*Dalton looked up to see if Hiraku was even paying attention. Looking at the driver, Hiraku thought for a moment.*
Well, your power is based on being around others from what I can tell. The device must channel something already in you, since you only got it recently. I hate to say it, but the reason it might react to you is your first run in with a monster. It did poison you and you didn't turn like Lycid.

*Before it could settle in for Dalton what Hiraku was just telling him, people ran off screaming. Two hulking creatures that were coming slowly had their vision and course set on the two riders. The path moving through the area where people were jogging, eating, relaxing or doing whatever which now became them fleeing in fear and screaming.*
Monsters attacking us again??
It seems like we can't shake whatever other monster or monsters that wants us both attacked. Business as usual, I suppose.
*Both riders getting up, they turned to face the looming attackers head on.

The once defeated black Knight was there, along with it's twin white Knight monster. The white Knight had a spear along with a shield, it's armor and trim was slightly different though not enough that the two looked that different.*
That one again? And he brought his brother? Not a good break for me I suppose.
*Doing their respective poses, the two transformed at the same time in a scene worthy of someone making an animated gif from.* Henshin!!

*Turning from Hiraku and Dalton into Era and Ardence, the two stood ready against the two Knight monsters which began picking up pace to attack. Immediately beginning to exchange blows back and forth, the two groups split off and began fighting each other. Avoiding the lance weapon of the white Knight, Era jumped back and fired his rifle at the monster who blocked with it's shield. Ardence rolled out of the way as the black Knight's sword came smashing in the ground. Slashing a few more times in vain, the Knight monster continued to miss hitting Ardence who was using him as a chance to try and improve on not being beaten around so much.

Tossing two cards in the air, Era's driver responded and snatched the cards with it's energy-looking track system and pulled them into the belt from where the energy came. Kamen Ride summoning two riders again, Era stood in a defensive position against the Knights advances. As the white knight rushed in, the first summoned rider Oraki appeared. The orange, Hibiki-based rider took out his axe weapon, slashing at the Knight who simply ran forward and stabbed through the rider with it's lance. Piercing the rider's axe and destroying the summon, the lance of the white Knight continued forward with intent of being stabbed into the real rider.

The second rider appeared, the green Agito-based rider Ebith, and went for a quick punch towards the charging Knight monster. Blocking with his shield, the punch was absorbed by Knight's defense and allowed him to stab at the summoned rider. Avoiding the lance, Ebith moved to the side before going in to kick. Moving the lance slightly, a wave of energy pulsed from the Knight's weapon and broke the data clone into bits of binary before it could land it's intended kick.* Just like the other monster. *Quickly looking up towards the sky and seemingly glaring through the suit.* I know whoever sent this and probably half a dozen other monsters are watching. Stop doing this! You don't know what your pushing for...

*Too busy screaming in the sky at the seemingly nothingness there, Era was open for the lance of the Knight to impale him. As it rushed in, Era avoided the attack before firing multiple times into the open side of the charging Knight. It sparked from the attack it was unprepared for, but quickly adjusted itself to smash Era with the side of it's lance and knock him off his feet. Going to smash it's lance down and try and kill Era, it was stopped as Era lifted his rifle up and fired it twice quickly. The first shot almost directly into the knee made the Knight monster fall over a bit, the second shot pegging it's opposite shoulder. The shoulder hit caused the monster to spiral to the ground and not impale Hiraku, leaving him some needed recovery time.

Getting to his feet, Era tried to think of his next step. He knew that his usual tactics wouldn't work here and he didn't want to risk using any higher functions of the belt again like with the last Knight he had to face. His only tactic at this point was to prolong it enough and hope that he could call one of the other riders for support. Suddenly, the other Knight came rolling over, sparking a bit as what seemed like Kiva rushed forward, wielding the large red hammer. The large hammer came smashing down at the black Knight, but it blocked with it's shield and sword, visibly struggling against the weapon. The white Knight got up, going to run past the Kiva rider and attack Era when Kiva spun and swung it's hammer into the charging Knight.* Judging from what little I've seen, you guys are made to attack Era's type of rider. So for this fight... I'll take you both on at once!!

*Era shook his head a bit. Ardence was right, but at the same time he was getting too cocky for his own good. Deciding not to call the other riders just yet and let Ardence get some sense knocked into him, Era watched as Kiva-Ardence tried to use the slower hammer to keep the Knights at bay. Swinging around wildly, he was attempting to hit one of the Knights but they were both avoiding the attacks. It was easier for them to get out of the way when they were prepared and Ardence's focus split. Trying to smash the black Knight with the hammer, Kiva-Ardence left himself wide open for the lance-wielding Knight to spear into his side and cause him to fly back, spark, and let go of his weapon.*

I was just getting to enjoy that weapon finally too!
*Ardence got up, the Kiva form shifting back to Ardence's normal look and the weapon vanishing.*
Look, I know your belt is starting to respond better, but we probably should get some help.
No... *Dalton thought to Fury attacking him at first, then washed it out of his mind as he thought of those who he had seen die or "die" in front of his eyes. He didn't want to always be held back or too weak to help anyone.* I will not let all these monsters keep doing what they want! *Another gear shined and appeared in Ardence's hand. This medium sized gear, or Spret Geardenn as Dalton called it, seemed slightly different than the other two he could access up to this point. Swapping it out with the one he had in the driver already, it also seemed to automatically replace the other small gear, or Pinn Gearden.

Pushing the rock holding the gears back into his driver, the gears began moving quicker. Suddenly, the driver formed grooves at the top of itself which resembled the top of OOO's driver.*
That is it? No other powers? When did I even see this person or monster???
I'd say there is more to it than you think.
*Summoning another rider, this time OOOs, Era took the role of standing between it and the Knight monsters who had begun charging again. They stopped however to put up their shields and weapons and defend as Era fired his gun in rifle mode multiple times at them. OOOs tossed three medals over to Ardence, who looked at them confused at first.*
The slots are like his driver, so you should be able to use the same power source as him. Put the medals into the slots like his are.

*Nodding, Ardence pushed the three medals into the slots of the driver and the belt's gears picked up speed slightly more. The color patterns of Ardence changed, keeping it's same design but it's coloring shifted to match the red, yellow and green of TaToBa's form* This is weird. Lets see how it works. *Eager to test it out, he ran at the two knights before jumping up to attack. Suddenly the green legs on Ardence flashed and propelled him higher into the air than he thought he would go. Screaming out a bit in shock, he reacted by trying to come down and land on the Knights with a double punch to at least make up for his rapid ascent in the air and inevitable crash. As he came down, the torso area which was now yellow in color lit up and claws appeared.

Catching and slashing the knight duo on the way down, he jumped back immediately to avoid any counterattacks. Once again sailing in the air, he was less screaming out of shock and more in excitement in how fun it was to bounce around like he was doing.* This is pretty fun too! *The Knights, annoyed that their tactics couldn't work on Ardence, went to their plan B and summoned a large wave of silver Pawns to handle Ardence so they could attack the digital OOOs and Era.* Heads up, Ardence. *Quickly reacting, the summoned OOOs tossed over two medals which Ardence turned and caught.*

Nice, there are more eh? *Era watched Dalton figure out the idea behind the medals he sent over, replacing the red and yellow ones with the two green he received. The color on Ardence synced up to be a multi-toned green rider form known as GataKiriBa. Wondering how well the Ardence system handled the medals and the greed influences, he watched the full-combo Ardence rush towards the large flock of Pawns.

As Ardence ran towards the Pawns, he began splitting off of himself and becoming his own replicated army. The two forces converged with the Pawns being little to no match for Ardence as he used the jumping, mantis-like swords and electricity the form provided to sweep through most of the swarming attackers. After a large sum of their numbers were reduced, the Pawns quickly fell back, afraid of being destroyed by the other army like their comrades had been.*

Use this combo to clean up. *Wanting to test this further and how well Dalton could handle switching full combinations, he had OOOs toss over three medals as the multiple Ardence clones converged into being one person again. Catching them, excited to try even more powers out, Ardence quickly swapped the yellowish medals into his belt and tossed the green ones away as they vanished into data.

His color changing to be multiple shades of yellow instead of green, Ardence laughed a bit with anticipation before rushing forward towards the remaining Pawns and the Knights. His speed increasing, he deployed the claws from before and began to run around looking like a yellow blur. Slashing and clawing apart the Pawns, he stopped in-between them and the Knights before unleashing a large burst of light and heat energy from the helmet area of his suit.

The Pawns and Knights sparked and fell backwards, causing the Pawns to dissolve into nothing.* This is going fairly well. Try this combo next. *OOOs tossed another set of medals through the air. Speeding over and catching it, Ardence swapped them out and shifted colors again. This time a gradient of grayish tones, the Sagozo-Ardence went to super-speed forward when he almost lost his balance.* This form is rather..clunky and slow.. *The Knights rushed their slowed attacker, attempting to slash the sword and stab with the lance into their opponent.

Stomping the ground before they came close, Ardence cracked the ground and tossed them in the air a bit before they slammed on to the ground themselves. When the black Knight got up first, Ardence punched both fists forwards, launching bulky gauntlets which had appeared with the form. The two fists hit, smashing the blocking Knight's shield and knocking him over again. Running forward as fast as the form could carry him, he reattached the gauntlets back on his arms and shifted his head forward. A horn appeared, ramming into the white Knight's shield and breaking it into pieces. Era watched, impressed with how belt was adapting to use the medals and seemingly having no ill effects on Dalton so far.

Ready to switch combos again, OOOs tossed another set of three towards Ardence. Going to reach for it, he still wasn't fully used to the weighed down speed of the form and mis-caught the medals, one of them dropping on the ground. As he went to get it, the Knights retreated from the battle and ran off. Era allowed them to leave, more interested in Ardence and his use of the medals.*
Where did they go? Damn... If I had only caught the coin in time I could have switched and kept the attack going.
It is alright. You did very well against two monsters and using the core medals so well. Especially for a first time using the powers.
That may be true, but I hate letting them get away. More innocent people could get hurt.
At least with these ones, they seem to target me or you. So don't worry too much. Be thankful for having the power to fight at all.
That is true I suppose. What should we do now?
Well, the Knight reappearing and with a twin is troubling. I'm going to have to go talk to someone I know. You should head home.
Alright I suppose... Good luck with what your looking into.
Thanks...

*Returning to being just Hiraku, he got on his motorcycle and left. Dalton, doing the same, returned home. Taking the chance to nap, Dalton still wasn't used to the belt and using the powers of the medals through the driver did strain him a bit. Not as heavily as if the OOOs driver used it, but it still had taxed him a bit. Hiraku on the other hand drove to an out of the way area of the city. The Knights appearing again unsettled him, making him know that someone was after him in a way that was exploiting his current weaknesses.

Pulling out a soda once he was at his destination, he opened it up. Summoned by the noise, Eiji walked out from seemingly no where.*
You sure know how to call me. This is getting old though. What is it now?
*Hiraku tossed the soda over to Eiji who caught it and took a big swig of the carbonated drink immediately.* Did you make those monsters?
Those things? No. I don't like making creatures to do my work. If I make one, it is simply out of boredom. *Eiji thought to the Eternal creature that was no doubt lurking around the city at that moment.*
Then who did? I can't get a reading on them. It is like they are incomplete dimensional enigmas or something.
Noburus made them. He wants you and that kid who trails you right now dead.
Tch...That annoyance was my second guess.
Is that all you wanted? To accuse me of making shoddy monsters?
I want you to fix my belt.
This again?? Don't be a stupid moron. I told you I can't fix it.
Your the only person I know of who can fix it.

I already told you I can't. Don't annoy me with this again.
Then who can fix it?
I only know of a handful of people who can fix it. You can always visit Noburus. Become his best buddy and trust him to fix it and just hand it back over.
No, especially if he created those monsters. I'd rather not deal with him. Who is left then?
You know the answer to that.
He's dead.
No he isn't and you know it.
*Eiji took a sip of his soda as Hiraku glared down at the floor, almost in a reflective manor. He looked to Eiji after a few moments.*
So who can fix i-
ENOUGH! *Eiji threw the soda can down, glaring upwards towards Hiraku.* I've had it with your whining about things. The deal we have had ends here.

*Eiji shifted into Kisekiri, his true and monstrous form. Large wings extended out, firing multiple energy projectiles at Hiraku who quickly transformed into Era before taking the impact. Falling back and to a knee for a moment, Era took out his sword and stood up fully again.*
I figured it was only a matter of time, but I was hoping you'd at least help me more before this. It looks like we have no choice, I have to fight.
*Not saying a word, Kisekiri unleashed a large torrent of energy which Era tried to avoid but was swept up in. Being smashed through a wall, Era flew inside a large and empty building only to be met by Kisekiri who was already there. Grabbing Era by the head, Kisekiri proceeded to smash him repeatedly into the ground before firing a large blast of energy point blank and letting him fling away and spark terribly.

Spinning behind himself as he got up, Era managed to clip Kisekiri as he dashed in to attack and hit him with another close up energy blast. Falling back from the sword attack slightly, Kisekiri laughed.*
Just like you to predict my next attack. We've fought too many times since being stuck here, but this time I will kill you!
Not if I can help it. *Era slotted in two cards while trying his hardest to avoid multiple energy attacks from hitting where he was. The beams tore up the ground as he avoided the attacks, but he was clipped by one or two of the shots. Two riders appeared and just as quickly were dismissed by a motion on Kisekiri's part before he pointed a finger at Era and created a spiraling electrical vortex. The vortex pulled Era in and began to damage him further. Moving his hand around, Kisekiri dragged Era across the ground and into several walls, pillars, and anything else in the area before tossing him back outside through another wall.*

You've...gotten stronger...
It has been a while since I tried to seriously fight you. I'm getting closer to leaving without you. When I can, I will destroy you and this place.
*Rushing forward, Kisekiri punched towards Era. Thought he avoided it, energy that came from Kisekiri's punch came flying forward from the punch motion and wrapped around the target, sort of like a lunar energy blast.

Hitting behind Era, he sparked and fell forward into a second punch which sent him backwards again. Before he was launched backwards however, Era fired his shotgun close range and held onto it tight as he flew threw the air, shifting it to ir's rifle mode and firing the best he could at Kisekiri before hitting the ground hard. The multiple shotgun and rifle blasts caused Kisekiri to spark a bit, but he seemed un-phased by the attacks.

Rushing in and slashing at Era, Kisekiri let off another large wave of strange looking energy and let it roar through the air. Avoiding it narrowly, Era fired his shotgun into the chest area of Kisekiri several times before he was kicked by him and punched hard enough to send him flying sideways. Catching Era with a hard clothesline and driving him towards the ground, Kisekiri swatted the rider down from the air into the ground.

Going to follow up with a large overhead energy attack, Kisekiri began to summon forth a larger attack than before. Managing to quickly slot in two cards, Era raised his shotgun as a wall of replicant guns appeared and fired off, blasting Kisekiri with enough force to repel the monster's advance. Stunning Kisekiri long enough, Era got back up and waited a moment as his armor stopped smoking from such excessive damage.

Kisekiri, having kept the attack charging, unleashed a large energy blast. Quickly reacting, Era shifted something into his belt. A large card appeared in front of him, much like used in his rider kick attack. Absorbing the blast, a second card appeared behind Kisekiri and shot it at the back of the monster. Simply reaching behind him without looking, he attempted to grab the energy in the air as this happened in one of their earlier fights.*

Your really too pr-- *Cut off before he could finish, the energy he reached for was gone and instead taken by a third card. Connected to a fourth card below Kisekiri, it reflected the attack upwards and blasted the monster from below with the energy he had attacked with. Knocked up and off his feet, Kisekiri landed on the ground laughing almost insanely.

Quickly taking out two cards, Era was about to go into Unleashed form and finish Kisekiri right then and there. Realizing in that moment however that he had been doing what the monster had wanted and played right into using his full capabilities in fighting. If he did go Unleashed, or further, it would no doubt lead to that again with the belt in this sort of condition. Putting the cards away, he changed over to another set.

Pausing further, Era looked down towards the ground, in too deep of thought even over the cards he had just chosen. Unaware of the battle at that moment, he was unable to catch Kisekiri charge in and slash with a large wave of energy. The attack caused Era to spiral in the air, taking a substantial amount of damage and making him fall out of his henshined state. An injured, slightly bleeding, Hiraku fell on the ground and laid there for a moment, breathing sparsely after the full powered hit from Kisekiri. The monster walked up, looming over the hurt Hiraku ready to lay the final attack in himself. However, he paused, his form shifting back to Eiji.*

Pathetic. No matter what I do, your still a coward like this. How can we resume our battle while your a frail little animal? Doesn't it burn you up inside to know who sent us to this infested rat-hole of a dimension?
Th- the dri- the driver it--
You keep looking for the one who can repair it. You have yet to accept the truth of it.
*Hiraku slowly got up, still a bit beaten up after the force of Kisekiri's last attack. It worried him greatly just how far Kisekiri had recovered in the short amount of time since the conflict had started up around them. It was clear to him though, that despite the rouse earlier he still intended to uphold their deal until they could find who had sent them here.* Wh- who then?!
You tell me. *Motioning his hand, the teal candroid activated and moved out from where Hiraku kept it.* Just look at what you've done.
....That is a normal candroi--
You and I both know better than that. Accept the truth so you and I can find who crippled us, then resume our own battle!
.....

*Saying nothing more, Hiraku partially limped away. Eiji grinded his teeth a bit, annoyed at how fragile Hiraku was being with the matter. Regaining himself, he knew that such a manor wouldn't benefit him or his plans. Watching Hiraku drive off, he himself vanished to another area where no other lifeforms were present.* You should be quicker than this, brother.
*Hiraku drove away from the fight. The words of Eiji hammering in his mind, he continued to drive around the city trying to forget about it and how his driver had been reacting. Finally heading home and dropping onto his bed, he winced in pain from the injuries he had taken from the fight.* I'm not going to let him have his way...but he did have at least one valid point. *Looking to the items he had amassed including a full collection of various candroids, then to the Era Driver, he knew that he couldn't keep wasting time looking for a person to repair his belt.*